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HEALTHToxins Stored In Your Fat Cells Are Making You Fat And Swollen. Here’s How To Cleanse Them
The environment we live in nowadays is filled with toxins and chemicals which are slowly destroying our body. The unhealthy diet most of us eat only makes matters worse. Toxicity nowadays is almost impossible to avoid and our liver and colon can easily get blocked. The body has a system which cleans the toxins naturally, but with so much work due to the constant attack by toxins, they don’t always function like they’re supposed to.
There are 2 types of toxins – fat and water soluble. The water-soluble toxins are eliminated through sweat and urine, but things are not so simple with fat-soluble toxins. In order to eliminate them, these toxins need to be turned to water-soluble compounds which is the liver’s job. Fat-soluble toxins include pesticides, food additives, preservatives, pollutants, heavy metals and plastics. As we said, the liver’s role is to make these toxins into lighter compounds which can then be eliminated. Unfortunately, due to the hard work this vital organ performs every day, it isn’t always able to turn the fat-soluble to water-soluble toxins, which means they can start accumulating in our body.
When the liver and digestive tract are blocked, none of them can’t perform their function. The so-called toxic fats need to pass through the digestive system into the small intestine, where small threads called villi sweep them. This process is supported by the body’s Gut Associated Lymphatic System or GALT which surrounds the GI tract and is vital for the elimination of toxins. If the GALT and villi are functioning well, the toxins and chemicals will get eliminated. However, the villi can easily dry out and the GALT system is often blocked due to our diet and the air pollution, resulting in tons of toxins accumulated in our tissues.
Bloating, swelling in the breasts, hands and feet, irregular bowel movements, skin irritation, joint stiffness and hypersensitivity are the main symptoms of a congested GALT. Add the dry villi to this problem and you’ve got a recipe for disaster. When the GI tract produces enough mucus, our stool is normal and all the toxins and chemicals can be eliminated. If the mucus is excessive, we will experience diarrhea. If you notice too much mucus in your stool, you should address the problem immediately as it can cause big problems.
The villi are crucial for the elimination process. They shouldn’t be too wet or too dry in order to function, but factors such as stress, unhealthy diet, coffee, additives and hyperacidity can harm their function. Proper bile production is also important for proper elimination. The bile is produced by the liver and has the role of processing fats, acting as the immune system of the GI tract. When there’s plenty of fiber in the body, things will be just fine. However, lack of fiber in your diet can cause bile problems and dry the villi, resulting in a congested GALT and a slew of health problems.
Liver Congestion
When the liver is congested due to a high level of toxins, it will allow fat-soluble toxins into the bloodstream. They will eventually find their way to our fat cells, accumulating in there and causing serious damage. These toxins can even reach the brain and are a potentially life-threatening problem.
Eliminate Your Fat To Remove Toxins From Your Body
The ancient Ayurveda medicine relied on improving the body’s metabolism in order to melt fat and flush out toxins from the body. There are many ways to burn fat (diet, exercise) and making major lifestyle changes is a big part of the process. It’s also important to learn how good your digestive system is functioning, as a congested liver and GI tract won’t allow you to burn the fat from your body.
If you’re noticing too much mucus in your stool or you’re suffering from diarrhea or constipation, it’s a sign that your detox pathways are blocked. In order to unclog them and resolve the problems, you need to follow certain rules. There is a way of decongesting your body naturally – you should eat a healthy diet rich in fiber and anti-inflammatory foods and try the recipe you can see below.
Liver Cleansing Recipe
Ingredients
1 grapefruit
½ cup olive oil
Apple juice
4 tablespoons Epsom salt
Directions
Add the Epsom salt in 3 cups of water and put the mixture in a jar in the fridge. Start the process by avoiding any food or drinks at 2 PM. Four hours later (6 PM), drink ¾ of the mixture. If the taste is too much for you, add a bit of vitamin C in it.
Two hours later at 8 PM, drink the same amount of the mixture. Don’t do anything after this step as the liver flush will start soon. At 9:45 PM, pour olive oil in ½ a cup, squeeze the grapefruit in and put the mixture in a jar. Close it and shake it well, then drink the mixture at 10 PM. Make sure to finish it in a maximum of 5 minutes.
Once you get up, drink ¾ of the salty mixture and go to sleep for another few hours. Drink the last dosage of the Epsom salt mixture 2 hours later, then eat some food 2 hours after that. This powerful cleansing recipe will remove all the toxins and fat from your liver and keep your organs functioning as they should. In this way, it will detoxify your body and get your metabolism working again, helping you lose weight.
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Dec 21, 2017
Mastering Shitcoins: The Poor Man’s Guide to Getting Crypto Rich
So you missed out on the crypto boom?
You had dreams of telling your boss where to shove it while you drove off in your shiny new pink Cadillac looking for the meaning of life but it didn’t happen.
Rage quit time!
Maybe you sat on the sidelines waiting for a good price that never came? These prices are crazy, you thought, they’ve got to come back down! Who would pay $10,000 for a single Bitcoin? It was only $1,000 a month ago. And so the prices kept blowing past you.
Or maybe you made all the mistakes in the Cryptocurrency Trading Bible parts one and two? You over traded, chased rallies too late, FOMOed, sold out too fast and in general did a lot worse than the market because you didn’t learn your lessons. The price to becoming a good trader is really, really high. Most people never make it. To get great at trading you have to lose a bunch of money fast and fail to outperform the market before turning it around.
If you’re lucky, you learn those lessons and wind up a savvy trader who trades well whether the market is up or down.
But the odds are against you. Human nature is against you. Emotions are against you. Everything is against you.
And yet there is hope.
You didn’t miss the boat. Well not totally. You can still swim out to it if you paddle real hard.
It’s not over. A mere 1% of people own crypto. Crypto can solve dozens of previously intractable problems, like digital identities, supply chain integrity, data breaches and many, many more.
But it’s going to take awhile. The crypto superhighway is still under construction. They’re paving the roads and pouring the cement. Nobody is living in the McMansions yet.
But…but…but bubble. Tulips. It’s all going to crash isn’t it?
Yeah. So what?
Let me let you in on a little secret. Ready?
This is the bubble Amazon and Apple went through during the dot.com crash.
Those were mountains at the time and now they’re mole hills.
I grabbed those screen shots from this amazing article that nails the true value of crypto on so many levels. Go read it right after this one and you’ll see that $5,000 or $10,000 or $25,000 doesn’t begin to reflect the value of Bitcoin.
Most people can’t see the future. It’s a total and complete blind spot to them, like staring into a snow crashed TV. As a futurist when I talk to people at parties they know I’m interesting and smart but they can’t hear a word of it. It’s like I’m the teacher in Charlie Brown.
While innovators live in the bright light of future possibilities, the rest of the world lives in the here and now. Inventors and futurists are the shaman and medicine men of the global tribe. The rest of the tribe are hunter-gatherers. And hunter-gatherers are 100% focused on the present. They have to be. There is no time for the future when you got to find the next meal.
And that’s why to the tribe self-driving cars are not real and will never exist. Virtual reality is joke. Bitcoin is a joke and a bubble and fraud.
Another genius predicting the future.
To the tribe, the Internet looked like a joke to them only twenty years ago, even though they live on it today. Self-sovereign money and privacy and decentralized blockchain voting are absolute mirages to them now.
But if you want to get crypto rich, they better not be mirages to you.
So how do you get there?
You don’t have time to watch charts all day. And you probably don’t have a lot of spare change to throw around. So you’re screwed right?
Nope.
No matter what your free cash flow looks like you can invest in cryptocurrencies. Whether you have $500 or $1000 or $50,000 the rules are the same. I know a fellow who started with a $1000 he borrowed and made himself a millionaire.
Of course not everyone will have that kind of result. And that’s all right.
How about the gal I met who invested $2,000 and turned it into $70,000? Could you use an extra $70,000? Are you patient enough to go through an 85% draw down and the pop of the crypto bubble?
Then you too can get crypto rich.
Patience and long term vision is the key.
Remember, rich is relative. If you never made more than $25,000 a year in your whole life, than $100,000 is a lot of extra money. It pays a lot of bills and delivers a lot of peace of mind.
That’s why I am going to give you the simplest path to crypto rich. No trading. No watching charts.
Now I don’t recommend you borrow anything to do this and you should only invest what you can afford to lose. Don’t mortgage your house or you deserve everything that is coming to you when the bank comes calling. Do not be an idiot. If you think you’re the exception the percentages say you’re probably not so just put your money in the mattress because it’s a lot safer there.
But if you’re willing to have patience and do this the right way, there is a decent chance that you come out ahead in the future.
The Amazon of Tomorrow
To figure out what to do, you just need to realize that the Amazons and Apples of tomorrow are going to come out of this space. Sure 80% of the projects will fail.
So what?
The others will go on to change the world.
The only problem is, which ones will survive and which ones will go to zero?
Ah, now there’s the trick. Nobody has any idea. Anyone who tells you different is lying. Nobody has a crystal ball.
But we can make an educated guess.
Cryptocurrencies give you the chance to do what venture capitalists do. Up until now it’s been the exclusive right of people with lots and lots of money to invest in early stage companies. But now it’s the little guy’s turn too.
The statistics on companies that succeed or fail in a venture capitalist’s portfolio would terrify the average present focused tribe member.
80% fail outright.
That’s right. They will be worth zero. The big goose egg. Nothing.
If a V.C. put in a million dollars, that million dollars is vaporized.
This is the way of the turtle. Slow and steady.
But it’s the other 20% where this gets interesting.
10% of the companies do all right. Maybe they’re profitable, so the V.C. gets back his or her money and maybe doubles it. Not bad. But considering he or she just lost 80% of their other investments not so good. That puts them in the red by about 50-70%. Ouch.
But it’s the last 10% where all the money is made.
Those are the companies that go nova. They go up 10x or 100x. We call those ten baggers or hundred baggers. It’s those home runs that recoup all the losses and then some.
So instead of trading you’re going to play micro-V.C.
You’re going to buy in with whatever you have to spare and you’re going to split that money up into the projects with the best chance at pulling a moon.
So let’s analyze the market here so we can figure out what to buy.
The Contenders
Right now coins are starting to split up into three major categories:
Currency
Platform
Utility
There is a fourth kind of coin: a security token. In a year or two, people will be overrun with companies putting their shares on the blockchain. But that can’t happen until regulators get out of fear mode and start putting together the right rules for it. Delaware, the business center of the known universe, already gave us model legislation, so count on it at the federal level too. They just move slower.
Unfortunately, there are no security tokens to trade right now so we’ll have to revisit that in a year.
Let’s start with the currencies.
These are the simplest coins. They’re programmable money. They’re looking to become a medium of exchange for goods and services. Either that or they’re a store of value like gold or silver. Some are deflationary, some inflationary. Some are meant to move fast and others are meant to hold so you can buy things with it later.
The granddaddy of them all is Bitcoin.
That’s got to be a part of any stack. Period.
It has first mover advantage and a huge lead on the others. It’s also the most expensive and maybe the least innovative.
It’s dark horse rival is Bitcoin Cash, a fork of the original project that has its adherents and haters. But regardless of how you feel about this coin, feelings ain’t got nothing to do with it. This is trading and we’re betting on everyone who could pull out a win here, not pretending we can predict the future perfectly. That means Bitcoin Cash should go into your pile as well.
Other coins like Dash have good momentum. Dash tends to thrive when Bitcoin is plunging. It steadily gains market and mind share. There’s also long time favorite Litecoin, the “silver” to Bitcoin’s gold. Decred is not a bad bet either, as it has a good distribution model and community.
Privacy coins are essential. These work a lot like a digital version of cash, anonymous and agnostic. Monero, Zcash, and Zcoin are good examples, as is PIVX another underappreciated dark horse that started as a fork of DASH but has evolved into its own system and incorporates the Zero Coin protocol. These are all strong contenders to become the cash of the future in a cashless society.
Let’s move on to the platforms. This is where things get really interesting.
Platform coins are looking to do things that are the sole domain of servers and clouds right now. They want to power decentralized applications, run smart contracts as law and power everything from identities to storage to voting.
The platforms have the longest way to go. They have to solve incredibly challenging scaling problems, maintain security, create whole new programming languages and deliver a fantastic user experience.
None of this is easy. It will take time. But these platforms are the foundation of the decentralized internet of the future.
The biggest and baddest so far is Ethereum. I had a chance to meet with one of the top VCs in the country last week, an early investor in this space, and he told me that 90% of his crypto holdings are in Ethereum. That’s because he sees it as the best chance to become the platform, the one platform to rule them all. They have tremendous momentum, incredible devs and they rapidly incorporate new changes into the system. Ethereum is a must hold for any stack.
But they’re not the only contender for the throne. New platforms are coming out every day. There’s bound to be one on a whiteboard somewhere that will blow us all away. But for now we go with what we have here and now.
The other major platform choices are QTUM and NEO out of China, MaidSafe, Waves, IOTA, Tezos (which isn’t trading yet and may never if they don’t survive their lawsuits but which you should definitely own if they ever get out of the gate.) Personally I think these idiots should stop suing, because the project is brilliant and these fools are only proving that they’re too stupid to invest and need the nanny state to protect them but I digress.
Lastly, there’s EOS, probably the biggest ICO in history. They have a good pitch and they’ve put out a steady stream of code. Not a bad one for your bag. I sold them way too early.
Others will certainly join the fold.
The last choices are utility coins. These are the hardest to pick.
The problem with most utility coins is they have no utility.
You’re supposed to use these coins to consume services like identity lookups or decentralized DNS lookups but there is no platform to use these coins yet, so they’re some of the riskiest because they have to survive long enough to service the dominant platforms. By the time that happens those services might already be incorporated into the platforms or get up and running for free. This should be the smallest portion of your bag. Expect utility coins to make up a significant portion of the post dot-com crypto bubble burst list.
The battle for the future of money.
However one style of utility coin is here to stay: Fintech coins. These are coins that are designed to move money around the world for major institutions like banks.
Ripple is the big one here. I don’t love their closed source model and their patents (patents are poison in this space) but their tech appears to work well and it keeps a very steady value, something essential when moving money because you don’t want that money experiencing crazy volatility swings like Bitcoin. If you put $1 million dollars on the wire it should come out a million dollars on the other side not $650,000 or $1.2 million.
The only question about Ripple is how much it actually rises in value over time. Hard to say but good to hold onto anyway.
A better choice to me is Stellar Lumens which has a fantastic team. They partnered with IBM to provide service to banks and they have some incredible advisors on board, as well as a lot of transparency. They’re also powering the two reward coins that have a good shot at becoming universal reward coins, Kik and MobileCoin, the second in development by the founder of Signal.
Omise Go has Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin as an adviser and they’re looking to do much of the same thing that Stellar and Ripple can do but in a more open fashion so they have my vote.
All of those coins are buy and holds in any strong portfolio.
Outside of Fintech, there are a few choices that are riskier but interesting.
PAY is a good bet, if they can get their partnerships with the major credit card creators off the ground. That is a big if because the Visas and Mastercards of the world will likely do their own crypto at one point in an attempt to maintain monopoly control over the credit card terminals.
I’d also look for coins that disintermediate businesses like an energy coin or Populous that deals with payroll and carving out costs there, something that will deliver tremendous ROI for companies.
SALT is incredibly interesting as well. They propose to do blockchain backed loans, another industry ripe for the picking and something that the IMF will love for micro-loans in third world countries.
Last up in Metal. They fit my ultimate pattern for building a universal reward coin and I like what I see out of them.
There are a bunch more I could list here but this isn’t about buying every coin on the top 100. This is about understanding who has a real shot at surviving.
This is my list. Don’t follow it blindly!
Do your own homework. Make your own decisions.
It’s your money and you have to live and die with your choices.
Don’t come blaming me if this doesn’t work. I am not your financial advisor. This is very risky. High risk, high reward. Making a bunch of money is about taking risks. Don’t come crying if that risk doesn’t pan out. I promise you nothing but the ability to place your bets and hope for the best.
That disclaimer aside, I like my chances. I’ve seen this scenario play out time and again in world history. I don’t see any reason it can’t work again.
So how do you do you pick your coins? Ask questions and demand good answers.
The questions you want to ask are:
Does this coin/project have a purpose?
If so what?
Can they solve a real problem?
How good is their team?
How long have they been around?
How strong is their code base?
Do they have a road map?
Are they transparent?
Every coin on this list has good answers to 70–80% of those questions. But don’t take my word on it. Do your own research.
10 Foods You Can Store For 100 Years
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10 Foods You Can Store For 100 Years
French bread will only last a few days before it goes bad. And canned goods will last you a few years.
So all food has an expiration date, right? Wrong!
Some foods can last a century. Yes, that’s right. A hundred years!
Here are 10 foods that can last (pretty much) forever. In fact, if stored properly, they will never spoil and will stay as fresh as the day you bought them — and will make a great addition to your pantry or emergency food supply.
So feel free to use that 10-pound bag of jasmine rice from 1998 that you were saving for Y2K. As long as it was stored correctly, it’s just as good for you as the day you bought it.
1. Raw Honey
Shelf-life: Indefinite
Honey may crystallize over time, but in terms of safety, this gold liquid is nearly immortal. If it’s stored in a sealed jar, it can last for centuries, according to the National Honey Board. Raw honey has such longevity that it has even been recovered from Egyptian tombs. Honey can sweeten your hot tea, alleviate seasonal allergies, and also can be used to treats wounds and burns. If your honey does crystallize, just place the jar in warm water until the crystals dissolve.
2. Pemmican
Shelf-life: Indefinite
Pemmican was first made by Native-Americans and later by European fur traders and settlers. It was made from the meat of a large game like buffalo, bison, elk or deer. The lean meat was cut into small pieces and dried by putting it over an open fire. Then it was mixed with fat and pressed into little cakes. Sometimes, berries were tossed in for extra flavor. Pemmican makes a great survival food. In fact, it was given in rations and used by British soldiers during the Second Boer War (1899-1902).
Check out the full article: How to make Pemmican – The Ultimate Survival Super-Food
3. Rice
Shelf-life: 30 Years to Indefinite
Rice is the perfect food for storage. And, like honey, has been found perfectly preserved in Egyptian tombs. White, jasmine, wild, Arborio and basmati rice all have an almost indefinite shelf life. White rice is considered by many to be the ultimate survivalist food to stockpile in order to be ready for a food crisis. But brown rice doesn’t have the same good fortune; its high oil content makes it turn rancid faster. Just be sure to store rice in an airtight container to keep out any bugs. I like to put bay leaves in bulk bags of rice to keep the bugs away.
4. Apple Cider Vinegar
Shelf Life: Indefinite
You can buy apple cider vinegar and not worry about it going to waste. So stock up on this healthy condiment and use it for salad dressings, marinades or even household cleaning. And if you feel a sore throat or cold coming on, put a tablespoon in a glass of water and drink it; you’ll feel better!
Learn more about vinegar here >>> 99 Domestic Uses For The Common Vinegar
5. Salt
Shelf Life: Indefinite
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Sea salt is the healthiest salt, but regular table salt is fine. Salt adds taste, preserves meat and helps food keep its texture. And if stored properly, it will never go bad. In the event of a grid failure, salt makes a great way to cure meat. Here is what one source says:
“Historically, brining and salting have been used as a method to preserve meat. Some methods were as simple as submerging the meat in a barrel of salt water. The salt solution was judged ready when it would float a raw egg. This solution would require approximately 8 pounds of salt to 5 gallons of water. Cover the meat completely with the solution and leave covered until ready to use. From the amount of salt, it requires you can see that it pays to store a substantial amount.” Read more interesting facts about salt here >>>27 More Reasons To Stock Salt
6. Vanilla Extract
Shelf Life: Indefinite
Made from dried, cured vanilla beans, the pure vanilla extract has a sweet, rich flavor. And since it’s made from alcohol, the pure vanilla extract will stay fresh and flavorful forever. However, imitation vanilla does not have the same lifespan, so make sure that you buy the more expensive vanilla extract. From cookies to cupcakes, the pure vanilla extract is usually used for baking. But historically, it was used to treat burns, cuts, and wounds.
7. Sugar
Shelf Life: Indefinite
White, brown and powdered sugar will last forever. If it hardens over time, you can break up the chunks by warming it up and stirring it, just like with honey. Sugar doesn’t support bacterial growth, but don’t forget to store it in an airtight container to keep the bugs and moisture out. And sugar can be used for more than just a sweet treat — it makes a great scrub to use on your face and body.
8. Soy Sauce
Shelf Life: Indefinite
As long as it’s never opened, soy sauce will last forever. Soy sauce is made from fermented soybeans, salt, wheat, and water. The high sodium content of soy sauce helps to preserve it. But if you’re gluten intolerant, make sure that you buy a soy sauce that is gluten-free. From stir fries to soups, soy sauce is an important ingredient in Asian recipes. My favorite way to eat soy sauce is to make a quick sauce by mixing ¼ cup of honey, ¼ cup of water, and 2 tablespoons of soy sauce. It makes a great stir-fry sauce or glazes for chicken.
9. Bouillon
Shelf Life: Indefinite
Because bouillon has large amounts of salt, it can last a long time. However, over time, the taste of the bouillon can be altered. So if storing bouillon cubes, it’s best to use a food sealer or seal in Mylar bags. It makes a great survival food used in broth or soup to deliver much-needed electrolytes to the body. I use it often in soups and stews; it’s a great way to save money and keep food costs low.
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10. Powdered Milk in nitrogen packed cans
Shelf Life: 25 Years to Indefinite
In a difficult situation, powdered milk makes an emergency source of calcium and vitamin D for young children. It can last indefinitely in nitrogen-packed cans and can be placed in the freezer. And if the powdered milk develops an odor or turns yellow, it’s time to discard.
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So whether you’re planning for a disaster or simply want to have a pantry stocked with non-perishable food for an unexpected snowstorm, having these 10 food items is important. And if you store these foods properly, they might just last forever.
What foods do you keep stocked that will last forever? Write your response in the comments below:
By Kimberlee Hertzer
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PS: Don’t forget about 37 Things You Should Hoard In A Crisis
Sturdy Staples: 9 Foods That Can Outlast You
How Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program toys with the passions of fandom
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‘We hear from incredulous fans all the time. It’s opaque for them’
By Kaitlyn Tiffany Feb 7, 2018, 9:00am EST
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Being a fan is a matter of life and death. The day of Ticketmaster’s presale for Taylor Swift’s upcoming Reputation tour, one fan wrote on Tumblr, “When I die[,] I want Ticketmaster Verified Fan to lower me into my grave so they can let me down one last time.” It’s a sentiment that was liked or reblogged by more than 1,000 others.
Verified Fan is a major piece of fandom outreach by Ticketmaster, once one of the most maligned corporations in the world, and this isn’t exactly the sentiment it’s meant to engender.
It’s a recent innovation by the ticket-selling giant, and David Marcus, an executive vice president and the head of music for Ticketmaster, explained it to The Verge in a phone call as “a very simple platform.” Fans register with their email address well in advance of a presale and wait to be offered a code that they can use to get into the sale during a special fans-only window. He calls the engine behind the platform a “behavior predictor,” which offers codes only to people on the list who seem likely to use a ticket rather than resell it. Not everyone who registers is verified as a genuine fan; not everyone who’s verified gets a code; a code doesn’t guarantee a ticket. This internet-age approach is oddly similar to methods used for the first arena shows in the 1970s, when fans mailed in their names to express interest in buying tickets and hoped to be selected via lottery — except there’s a little-understood algorithm involved.
“WE DON’T DISCLOSE THAT. WE DON’T TALK ABOUT THAT.”
As far as what a fan has to do to come across to the system as a fan, Marcus says, “We don’t disclose that. We don’t talk about that.” If they did, he argues, scalpers would adapt. “We’ve already seen a huge amount of attempted abuse, attempts by bots to create Verified Fan registrations.” (In December of last year, he did tell a PopSugar reporter that her choice to register for a code for every date of Harry Styles’ upcoming arena tour had been a bad idea.)
The basic process of verifying fans and offering them codes is always the same, he explains, but artists can opt to add an engagement layer on top of that, which “takes the undifferentiated pool and makes a queue.” The most elaborate (and controversial) example of this so far was Swift’s choice to offer “boosts” that could be procured by buying her album several times (on her website, from Walmart, from Target, from iTunes), buying merchandise, engaging with sponsors on social media, or watching her music videos. The boosts supplement Verified Fan and sort fans into a line, with the most dedicated — measured both in time and money — bumped to the front. This has led, obviously, to some strange new behaviors and discussions bubbling up on fan spaces like Tumblr and Reddit. This is also how Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan has become a new ritual of fandom.
“I’ve spent $400 on merch and on 14 preordered Reputation albums and all I really want is for Taylor to see this!!” one fan wrote five weeks before the presale. “If you guys could please please please tag Tayor and reblog! I can do a giveaway for 13 of the albums too! I really want Taylor to see all that I’ve done!”
Fans, collaborative even when under duress (one fan wrote a furious open letter to Swift that began, “Dear Taylor, you’ve created the Swiftie hunger games”), shared image macros layering tips and opinions about the new system over pictures of Swift’s face. “I hope others can share their experiences with verified sales through Ticketmaster so we can take everything that people have learned and try to apply it the best we can so we can hopefully all be the lucky ones!” one wrote. Many published email correspondence and transcriptions of phone calls with customer service representatives from Ticketmaster, as well as rumors with notes like “I don’t know how true this is but reblog like crazy.” Once satisfied with their own place in line, some fans saw an opportunity to give away boosts in exchange for follows, likes, and reblogs.
Fandom is an activity, one in which demonstrativeness and superstition are the twin pillars of participation. Being a good fan is something that’s done both internally and externally: by achieving tickets to a stadium tour and by helping others to do so, by winning access to an important experience and by having others see that you’ve done so. You’ll use proven tactics and rumored ones.
“I’VE NEVER REALLY KNOWN THE PROGRAM TO HAVE ANY TYPE OF METHODOLOGY ASIDE FROM CHOOSING PEOPLE BASED ON DUMB LUCK.”
Asked about this economy of information, Marcus says he doesn’t really spend time on Tumblr. “But if people are going to be fans, great. The world is a better place for that. That’s the behavior we all should be trying to reward as much as possible.”
Every fan I spoke to for this article shared the same two feelings: that Verified Fan was a great idea (in the end, they all managed to get tickets), and that it was deeply confusing and stressful. “I’ve never really known the program to have any type of methodology aside from choosing people based on dumb luck,” says Ally, a Niall Horan fan who borrowed a code from a friend to get tickets to the former One Direction member’s upcoming tour. But, “I think it’s great that they’ve put forth this initiative, and it’s a great first step.”
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Ashley Carncross, a 23-year-old Swift fan from Delaware says, “The information we were given about the Verified Fan process was so confusing and vague and we really had no idea what to expect… Even though my call with [Ticketmaster customer service] was seemingly informative, I came to find out, after taking part in the process, that most of the information was wrong.” Yet, she says, “I love the Verified Fan program though. I feel like the tickets actually get into the right hands!” Simi, 21, says she also received confusing information from customer service agents, with some saying that fans’ places in the line would decide when their purchase windows would open and others saying it didn’t really matter. “That kind of conflicting information is bound to cause mass panic and hysteria,” she says. She adds anyway, “Overall, I love the idea of a verified fan system.”
Heather, a 21-year-old Swift fan, says she saw some fans using the presale as an opportunity. They would buy four tickets when they only needed two, then sell the extras at a huge markup to pay off their own admission. “You notice that the fans become the scalpers.”
Still, she appreciates that Swift’s presale included boosts that were free, which was great for people like her, who couldn’t afford to shell out for merch or extra copies of the album. “Of course,” she adds, “watching 50-plus videos every day can get kind of monotonous. Especially when it sometimes wasn’t clear if my video play boosts were going through.”
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The Verified Fan system has been effective, according to Ticketmaster, as about 95 percent of tickets purchased through it are not resold. For the recent presale for Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway residency, Marcus says, the number was 97 percent. This isn’t a negligible improvement: usually, about 30 to 50 percent of tickets for a popular artist’s concert end up on the resale market, where they’re hiked up to astronomical prices. Scalpers and their bots are public enemy number one, to hear Marcus tell it, and he talks about battling them as a “constant arms race,” one that Ticketmaster hopes to end by addressing “the root causes” of the predatory resale market: “Anonymous people buying tickets on a first-come-first-serve basis, at below market value.”
“OVERALL, I LOVE THE IDEA OF A VERIFIED FAN SYSTEM.”
It’s the anonymity and website-crashing free-for-all that Verified Fan is mostly meant to address, but the issue of “market value” is a thorny one, too. Many of the early reactions to the Swift presale were outrage at pricing for the available seats. Ticketmaster says it has no control over the price point for tickets, nor does Live Nation (though it was just two years ago that Ticketmaster gave away $5 million in ticket vouchers to settle a class action lawsuit over its aggressive service fees). Regardless, it’s clear that someone, at some point in the process, realized that offering tickets to the people who want them the most first was an opportunity to lightly exploit people who are willing to pay as dearly as they can possibly afford for an experience they want very badly, or even feel they need.
The other elephant in the room is Ticketmaster itself, which merged with Live Nation in 2010 to form Live Nation Entertainment, a corporation that now controls the vast majority of both tickets and venues in the United States.
THOUGH TICKETMASTER HAS SPENT YEARS BATTLING BOTS, IT ALSO SPENT A FAIR AMOUNT OF TIME BATTLING FAN CLUBS
U2’s long-running management-operated fan club (which has a $40-per-year membership fee) offered special presales to several of its tours, with some seats for 2017’s Joshua Tree Tour going for as little as $70. But for the upcoming Experience + Innocence tour, they became the first act to sell all available tickets through Verified Fan. The existing fan club had to register again through Verified Fan, and upset fans tweeted about the overly complicated process as well as “exorbitant ticket prices.” (Many of the tweets set the price point at around $300.)
Though Ticketmaster has spent years battling bots, it also spent a fair amount of time battling fan clubs. The details of one of these battles became public when fan club ticketing platform Songkick sued Ticketmaster, alleging anti-competitive behavior and antitrust violations, as well as stealing information from company computers. Emails from both companies were made public, revealing a heated conflict around Adele’s 2016 world tour, for which she wanted to reserve batches of tickets to sell through her fan club — in venues owned by Live Nation and in venues with exclusive Ticketmaster contracts. In another spat, Ticketmaster tried to compel Alabama Shakes to reimburse it for fees the company “lost” when the band sold some of its tickets directly to fans through its fan club.
Leading up to the lawsuit, emails obtained by Amplify revealed Live Nation and Ticketmaster executives “raising major alarm bells about the loss of market share to upstart fan club ticketing companies,” and worrying about “possible disruption.” Songkick ceased operations in October 2017, and the case was resolved this January in a $110 million settlement that included Ticketmaster acquiring Songkick’s remaining assets — all those that had not been sold off to Warner Music Group in the midst of the lawsuit.
Charitably, Verified Fan is an obvious move and a win-win for Ticketmaster and for fans. Slightly less charitably, it’s savvy branding ripped off from the smaller businesses Ticketmaster has happily watched die out. Scalpers are a good choice for a public enemy, but fan club ticketing operations are a good source of secret inspiration. “Scalpers completely abuse artists and fans, not to accomplish anything but a profit,” Marcus says. “If you want to build a successful retail brand, you can’t stand by and watch that happen. You have to change the way you do business.” By mimicking the way your competitors used to do business.
Marcus laughs when I ask about the volatility of fandom, how having such a personal stake in something can make people lash out when they’re disappointed. He’s familiar. “We hear from incredulous fans all the time,” he says. “It’s opaque for them. We have to treat people as individual fans and do a better job getting to know them.” But many fans haven’t gotten angry at Ticketmaster, he argues. “We also delighted a lot of people. On Twitter, they were delighted and surprised to be able to pick out the tickets they wanted.” Setting up our interview, his publicist accidentally CC-ed me on an email that said, “I think sending her a variety of positive fan tweets to start would be good.” For the record, it’s true that there are many positive tweets about Verified Fan to be found with a simple search.
Verified Fan is not only a successful integration of fan club ticketing practices, it’s a brilliant branding move for Ticketmaster. “We’re in the fans business,” Marcus says. “This is what we do all day. If there are experts, we are those. We don’t enter that space lightly. This is a big deal for us.”
TICKETMASTER IS SETTING ITSELF UP AS A NEW FAN OBJECT, TIED INEXTRICABLY TO THE ARTISTS THAT THESE PEOPLE LOVE
By speaking to fans in their own language (an email I received while waiting to buy Harry Styles tickets read, “There’s no easy way to say this, tomorrow is going to be tough”) and coming up with dozens of reasons for them to interact with the platform for weeks at a time, Ticketmaster is setting itself up as a new fan object, tied inextricably to the artists that these people love, and demanding a similar intensity of attention. In Superfandom, Zoe Fraade-Blanar and Aaron Glazer’s examination of the commercialization of fandom over the last several decades, they argue that this is not really even “branding,” but rather the providing of “context.” Context is more volatile because fans participate in its creation, but it’s also more durable and ultimately more profitable. “In a sense,” they write, “the purpose of fandom is to project a personal meaning into what would otherwise be a soulless commercial commodity.”
At the end of our call, Marcus gets frank. “Live entertainment, music, is emotional, and it’s supposed to be,” he says. “It’s art. It’s supposed to be challenging.”
It’s a statement with two possible meanings: either buying a ticket is in itself art (and I doubt this is what he means), or the way that some art challenges people is not by temporarily muddying their minds and hearts, but, rather, by putting their purchasing skills to the test.
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thisistomok
The ticketing industry is hell, and ticketmaster are the devil.
Posted on Feb 7, 2018 | 9:31 AM
mdave
Allowing Live Nation and Ticketmaster to merge was a big mistake by regulators. Took two monsters and merged them into Godzilla.
Posted on Feb 7, 2018 | 9:41 AM
GoodTroll
Ugh. I don’t know why this is so hard. We need states to step in and outlaw scalping (resale at face value should obviously remain legal) and actually enforce it. Make the penalties high enough that it’s just not worth it for the scalpers. It won’t completely go away, but it would stop the bots as there would be no incentive.
Posted on Feb 7, 2018 | 9:50 AM
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So it’s RNG inside RNG with an RNG wrapper? Are these guys owned by EA?
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Watch this all-electric ‘flying car’ take its first test flight.
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Sebastian Addams
Sebastian Addams Hopefully the governments of the world will start planning where these aerocars can land and take off from, licenses, autopilots and all other general legislative requirements before the technology is perfected. There's nothing worse then have great tech that is ready and being held back by lagging governments who fail to plan!
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Jack Bruce
Jack Bruce Am I the only one who noticed that Vertical Take Off and Landing spells VTOL not VLOT?
Or is it just a new version Ive not heard of before?
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Peter Abdis
Peter Abdis Unless you live where all of your electricity is supplied by solar, calling this vehicle "zero-emission" is a misnomer. All it does is defer the emissions to the electric company. And that doesn't count whatever emissions were created during the manufacture.
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Voo Abraham Bernard
Voo Abraham Bernard I hope the government are starting to plan the rules on flying these machines otherwise I could imagine the number of accidents and illegal border crossing going up.
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Daniel Friis
Daniel Friis A big reason why batteries are not a good way to fly long distances is their energy/kg. The more weight you have on the aircraft the more enegy you need to keep it up. Diesel holds about 8 times more energy per kilogram.
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Darren Li
Darren Li So why's this not referred as a personal aircraft but a flying car? It just flies with limited ability to drive on ground, like any planes or helos.
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Anthony Wohler
Anthony Wohler Not feasable in any way. If i have a fault on my car the engine dies i loose all power i just roll to a stop. If you have a fault 300ft up you drop like a stone into the nearest school/hospital/shopping center as you hit the ground the lipo battery...See More
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Lois Angelu Saro
Lois Angelu Saro This may be the prototype that will change the world a few decades now. Remember when only a few rich people owned cars? And the first models were horrible? Remember the first models of planes? Look at us now. Give it some time, then it will take over the world as we know it.
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Blair Atwell
Blair Atwell If you stop the video, showing the internal ducting, it looks like it has a foam construction.
It seems easily possible to make a lightweight RC prototype, but increased weight of production model plus the passenger/s, bigger battery, avionics, etc. might make this harder than it seams. So, how much did this prototype weigh?😉
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Rico Khan
Rico Khan An elitist solution to another pervasive problem. Typical. Go in a flying car to evade and escape traffic congestion in the cities. Path of least resistance. Good bye, plebes. Too bad you rabble are stuck on the ground still using old fashioned wh...See More
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Rossana Villena
Rossana Villena I have been waiting for an invention like this... a car that is able to fly or some kind of transportation that can be used individually and halt the destruction of natural environments, especially forests!!🌲 I hope this is a step forward to it and hav...See More
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Zar Raz
Zar Raz These would have to be controlled solely by artificial intelligence autopilot and gps navigation that communicates with other aircraft aswell as being fitted with multiple parachutes as a standard.
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Dave George
Dave George This technology will only work if it's fully automated... people can barely drive on the ground; the last thing we need are people blindly flying in all directions at will.
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Craig Stewart
Craig Stewart I cannot wait until these become an every day reality for us. Two years in we can expect the ' hold the phone, weve fucked it again people, these electric jet motors exhale nox gas, causing cancer, pubic crabs and gonorrhea . switch back to diesel or we'll thump you for some kind of unjustified tax'
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Philip Chaaya
Philip Chaaya They should start using this for ambulances and rescue teams first.
I don't think ppl are ready to fly yet, some still can't drive properly.
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Kristoph Jong Mathers
Kristoph Jong Mathers I may be wrong but I think the intention is to have them completely computer controlled, we wouldn't be letting any yahoo steer them. If they were computer controlled and networked it would be pretty trivial to keep them from running in to each other.
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Majed Elshaar
Majed Elshaar People would need to basically be pilots with flight school training to be able to pilot these. Most people who drive can't drive well. Everyday I'm shocked at how terrible people are at driving. Those same people flying would be a nightmare.
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Steve Shon
Steve Shon People can barely drive a car, pilots are showing up to work drunk. The last thing people need is this. Very cool but people don't deserve this because they'll just ruin it. This is why we can't have cool things.
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Eric Baumann
Eric Baumann 'They say it can mitigate traffic issues in congested cities'
I'm gonna call bullshit there. No intelligent city is going to allow these things to fly between buildings like Star Wars or some sci fi movie. What happens if the thing stalls, either by engine or some aerodynamic issue? It falls to the ground, possibly killing a bunch of people on the sidewalk?
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Dennis Layag Javelosa
Dennis Layag Javelosa A lot of liability issue , it will increase the mortality rate of private transport . I imagine this thing flying in the path of bigger air transport vehicles putting a lot people endanger for one sole purpose to go one place faster by 10-30 minutes . It not going to happen unless there is highway or virtual road up in the sky to give this technology a safe reason to have.
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Gary Morris
Gary Morris Brilliant 👍👍
Never gonna happen , as said before it's not a car , legislation,license, etc .why not just buy a helicopter,there available now if you hadn't noticed.Saying that good job 👍
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Ross Gremillion
Ross Gremillion April Letard this will help with your road rage lol
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Erskine Dale
Erskine Dale looks cool, but whoever made the video has very little experience with aircraft. VTOL vs VLOT. A flying car can drive on the road and fly. Calling the many ducted fans turbines is a stretch.
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Rex Anthony Knight
Rex Anthony Knight Given the number of spatially unaware incompetents who currently struggle to handle two dimensional ( actually three, when we include that vital one, time ) space yet manage to obtain driving licences, the potential for collisions will increase expon...See More
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Esteban Ceniceros
Esteban Ceniceros With all the 9/11 scares by the globalist Lizards and increased security measures at every possible checkpoint and then some, the Lizards want to bring this out??? And can you imagine that, say, 1 million citizens of NYC flying around in these things??? If these ever get released, only a privileged few (like the financiers of this project) could ever afford one. In the meantime, I'll keep walking with my own feet.
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Valentin Botev
Valentin Botev No, that can't be used as a car but it can easily replace cars after a hundred years. This "flying car" may be environmentally friendly but 1st of all it will probably cost a fortune for the average person,secondly, people need time to get used to these "cars". In this video there is basically a car my grandchildren will drive(fly) :D.
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Dean Reed
Dean Reed I understand they are preparing for a test in my home state of Texas. To put this puppy to the ultimate test, our state will have it piloted by a drunk twenty five year old high school dropout and an 87 year old deaf and legally blind convict who was scheduled for execution but received a last minute stay of execution because the state penal system ran low on drugs normally utilized to facilitate legal executions.
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Justin Wilkes
Justin Wilkes We already have flying cars. They are called aircraft and you're still going to need a pilot's licence and you're still going to have to follow Fly Zone restrictions for public safety and noise pollution.
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Bob Brown
Bob Brown Once again...we can never fly this in public. Just imagine millions of them in your neighborhood, all over your head and streets at the same time running out of power...36 engine malfunctions....the occupants texting or messing with their children. The chaos and carnage will be insane. Good recreational vehicle in a controlled circumstance and that's all!
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Colm MacGabhann
Colm MacGabhann These sound neat. But even if they prove feasible, I imagine they would be subject to the same flight restrictions in cities as helicopters... and therefore not something everyone could just call in wherever.
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A Train
A Train Why... why do people bother trying to make flying cars? This is not a new idea. People have been creating successful flying cars for decades but very few people buy them. Why? The answer is simple. Here in the USA (and probably everywhere else in ...See More
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Ashu Srivastava
Ashu Srivastava I think flying cars would really be a chaotic idea. Imagine a sky with no lanes, turning points, traffic lights, just flying cars flying in a random way with no ATC or similar thing.
This is so hypothetical concept in my opinion. What do u think guys??
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Richard K. Hopkins
Richard K. Hopkins Y'all are all talking about regulations and I'm figuring that the FAA will just go with standard aircraft regulations, because that's what these are.
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Jose XZx
Jose XZx Think I'll stick to my car.. When something stops working on that it just slow down to a stop.. I'm all good with randomly falling out the sky because my wife forgot to have the god damn oil changed last fucking weekend.. Bravo Jasmine BRAVO..
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Eduardo Diaz Rivera
Eduardo Diaz Rivera Great, one more "smart" flying device of many more to come. BUT, what about air traffic??? That's the main problem, still unsolved, even for jet airliners is still a very complex and risky problem. Imagine lots of those unsafe (for grounders) flying wh...See More
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Mike Weindl
Mike Weindl I'm sure everyone realizes that this will only be transportation for the filthy rich. Unless you're paying big bucks for it don't count yourself in for flying in one of these. at least not for a long time.
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John Day
John Day So, experimental car. What is the difference between an experimental car and an experimental airplane, answer none. John Denver flew an experimental airplane and look where it got him. So now we’re going to have airplane crashes all over the earth on a...See More
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Jack Hubbard
Jack Hubbard That is REALLY cool, BUT.. when are inventors going to stop using propeller driven vehicles and figure out how to use magnetic or some other form of propulsion. This is really neat, but an airplane by any other name is still just that.. an airplane
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Brett Northey
Brett Northey I think it's great that people are advancing ideas like this - but this concept is limited by the propulsion system IMO- this is where the boffins need to concentrate their collective minds- the next generation of energy technology - not just the propulsion system needs to be developed- otherwise it's just tech-gimmick.
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Stephen Stewart
Stephen Stewart These concepts have been around for years. This one looks to be the least developed and most dangerous of them all. The VTOL design is very problematic and can only be flown by the most skilled pilot. The Oprey and F35 have shown us that even with bill...See More
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Joel West
Joel West Fear not Eric, this is not an ET. It is just the next version of Uber-like transportation. Imagine the confusion if one of these flew near the desert conference near 29 Palms. 😂🤣🤪
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Orly Yousef Flores
Orly Yousef Flores Development in all field of sciences could not and should not be curtailed as it is inherent right for man kind....But legislators and other law making bodies should be quick enough to realized adoption of relevant rules to govern such developments to avoid misuse of such but only for the good of mankind.....
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Glenn Ireland
Glenn Ireland Yeah I don’t think flying cars you’re ever going to really take off in the market because think about it you’re out in your front lawn and all of a sudden you get hit with a McDonald’s bag from a flying car can imagine all the trash people will be thro...See More
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Sam Grant
Sam Grant Sam Barnes love how they are marketing this as a car. By any standards it is just a personal plane with vtol capability. Interested to see the numbers behind it as well
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Giuliano Scappini-Perier
Giuliano Scappini-Perier People are still more concerned at the fact that you can crash it into a building or perform bad acts but anyone who has that idea is going to do it regardless of the technology they have on them and obviously you'll need a pilots license not everyone will be driving one of these
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James Bunce
James Bunce Ok, do you actually BELIEVE they will just let anyone fly a car capable of 300kmh - 186mph- anywhere near an airport like JFK, LAX or anyother major airport? NO!
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Ralph Myers
Ralph Myers How is it a "flying car"? There doesn't appear to be any form of steerage so that it can be driven on the highway. Just some kind of dolly system to roll it to the take-off point. And, the wings don't appear to fold or retract. Just an aircraft, not a car! Or, am I just missing something? 🤓
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Joe Lounsbury
Joe Lounsbury The reason why batteries weigh so much is they contain all their oxidizer and don’t spit out their burnt fuel.
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Alberto Cano
Alberto Cano ... And whats the fligt time for the plane? Because if its 10 minutes then It's not viable. And it looks like it does not pack too much batteries... So I call bs.
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Dave Guz
Dave Guz Should come equipped with parachutes with max load of 3k pounds incase of inflight hiccupa or loss of power id feel better and so would passengers they have safety features along with airbags for inflight accodents
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Vanessa Rivers grew up on a ranch on the Central Coast of California and attended college at UC Santa Barbara, where she fell in love with surfing. Surfing led Vanessa around the world and it was on one of these trips that she decided to combine her love of the ocean and nature to create an eco-friendly swimwear line, SUMMERLOVE SWIM. Vanessa is currently based out of London, lives part-time in California, and spends much of her time traveling, documenting her adventures on her blog, GlitterandMud.com, and here on We Are Travel Girls. Vanessa is also a proud new mom to a little travel girl in the making called Sadie.
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Charlotte Louise
Charlotte Louise
Senior Contributor
Charlotte is half English half French, and was born and raised in London before spending her teenage years in Ibiza. She went to university in Madrid for five years, moved back to London for a few years, and is now currently living in Paris. After traveling to nearly all continents and having lived in different countries, Charlotte started her travel blog last year to share her amazing travel experiences around the world. She’s a curious person by nature and, when it comes to travelling, Charlotte takes every opportunity to explore the world and discover new gems. She’s fascinated by the beautiful world we live in and nothing makes her happier than escaping somewhere new. In addition to being a true wanderluster, she’s very sporty, a passionate foodie, an animal lover, sun chaser and amateur photographer.
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Rebecca Louise
Rebecca Louise
Senior Contributor – Travel & Fitness
Rebecca-Louise is a fitness trainer who films workout videos all over the world. She travels to a new country or city each month to bring people an exciting way to workout as well as broaden their horizon when it comes to travel. Rebecca-Louise lives a healthy active lifestyle and advocates all round wellness. She is also well known for her inspirational videos that have helped people in all continents re-train their mindset, showing them they are capable of more and believing in each individual’s full potential. Rebecca-Louise has a great deal of drive, work ethic and determination. Originally from the UK now living in Southern California where she moved at 23 to get her commercial pilot’s license.
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Shannon Boselli
Shannon Boselli
Social Media & Marketing Intern
Shannon graduated from Santa Clara University in June 2016 and quickly embarked on a 4 month journey through South East Asia. Fuelled by a excitement for travelling and passion to explore new cultures, she quickly fell in love with everything Asia had to offer. She has now travelled to 8 countries and 26 cities during her time in Asia. She is currently living in Bali and working for We Are Travel Girls, hoping to help gain more exposure for the company during her time as an intern.
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Leah Sullivan
Leah Sylvia Sullivan
Graphic Design Intern
Leah is a graphic design graduate from Auckland New Zealand who’s excited to be living her dream, travelling the world. Her creative and outgoing nature gives her a deep passion for exploring, taking photos, writing and designing. In July 2016, after saving up her pennies, she jet-setted off to Europe (boyfriend in tow) in search of new adventures. Throughout her travels, she’s continued to work as a freelance graphic designer, and started a travel blog, which aims to give people the inspiration and information to do it all themselves. Travelling has given Leah the spark to keep her design career alive, while at the same time enjoying everything Europe has to offer.
Ariana Haddy
Ariana Haddy
Marketing Management & SEO Intern
Ariana is a passionate traveler who loves to discover those less frequented corners of the world. She loves photography and enjoys learning new tips and tricks to take beautiful photos. She also enjoys being in nature (the beach or the mountains) and cuddling with her dog on a rainy day with a cup of tea and a good book. Ariana is fluent in Spanish and studied in Madrid. She is currently working toward a Master’s degree in International Marketing Management. She would love to one day own her own business, work as a wedding photographer, or open a B&B in the countryside. Her dream is to live in many different parts of the world throughout her life to truly experience distinct cultures.
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Anny Wooldridge
Intern
Anny Wooldridge was born and raised in a small town in Norfolk, England. She is a passionate traveller and has visited over 28 countries as well as living and working in Greece, France, USA and Colombia. Her travel inspiration came from her father who inspired her to fulfil her travel dreams after graduating from University in 2013. She started a travel blog inspiring others to travel and has pursued her passion for writing ever since as a freelance travel writer and editor. She is currently living, working and travelling around Colombia discovering the beauty the country has to offer. In addition to her love for travel she is a competition water skier and has been participating in the sport since the age of 12.
Ryan Rappeport
Ryan Rappeport
Web Developer
Don’t be alarmed, there is a guy on the We Are Travel Girls team too! Ryan is the web developer for We Are Travel Girls, taking care of the website and all of the technology going on behind the scenes. Growing up in Los Angeles, Ryan has always been an avid world traveler, particularly to warmer climates. After graduating from Loyola Law School and working for Deloitte’s Analytic and Forensic Technology group, Ryan now runs his own website development company at Salty Collective.
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